Auschwitz

Poland to amend controversial Holocaust law

Article Agency - 27 Jun 2018

The amendment is designed to remove fines or criminal penalties for anyone found guilty of ascribing Nazi crimes to the Polish state

Germany’s Nazi hunters in final straight of race against time

Article Yannick Pasquet - 21 May 2018

For decades after the war, the German government showed little haste to track down many of those involved in the organised mass murder

The intolerable loss of dignity

Article Rafael Winkler - 4 May 2018

Obliterating being human is beyond our comprehension and so we invoke evil and dignity – but the wound is indelible

Poland’s president signs controversial Holocaust bill into law

Article bogdan TagDiv - 6 Feb 2018

The law sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term for anyone who describes Nazi German death camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau as being Polish

‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’, 96, fit to serve jail term: German court

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Nov 2017

Oskar Gröning was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300 000 people at the Nazi death camp.

Letters to the editor: May 29 to June 5 2015

Article bogdan TagDiv - 29 May 2015

Readers write in about contraceptives, Holocaust education and the danger of essentialising.

‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ goes on trial in Germany

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Apr 2015

Former Nazi officer dubbed the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" went on trial in Germany, with almost 70 Holocaust survivors relatives at the court.

The living march, lest we forget

Article Robyn Sassen - 2 Apr 2015

After escaping the Nazis in Poland, it took Irene Klass 70 years to return to the ghetto and her home. This is her story.

Remembering Auschwitz 70 years on

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Jan 2015

Survivors return to Auschwitz on the 70th anniversary after victims were set free as leaders sound alarm.

Dutch Nazi fugitive dies at 90

Article Erik Kirschbaum - 28 May 2012

Nazi war criminal, Klaas Carel Faber, who escaped from a Dutch jail and lived as a fugitive in Germany for 60 years has died at the age of 90.

Netanyahu’s war talk ups the ante in Iranian standoff

Article Crispian Balmer - 6 Mar 2012

An uncompromising speech in the US by Israel's prime minister has persuaded the public back home that war with Iran is possible, perhaps even likely.

Musical ‘masterpiece’ captures horror of Auschwitz

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Sep 2011

Opera composed by a Polish Jew and based on a survivor's novel makes its British debut.

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